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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 280: R744-R751, 2001;
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Vol. 280, Issue 3, R744-R751, March 2001

Baroreflex effectiveness index: an additional measure of baroreflex control of heart rate in daily life

Marco Di Rienzo1, Gianfranco Parati2, Paolo Castiglioni1, Roberto Tordi1, Giuseppe Mancia3, and Antonio Pedotti1,4

1 LaRC-Centro di Bioingegneria, Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS and Politecnico di Milano, 20148 Milano; 2 Istituto Scientifico Ospedale San Luca, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, 20147 Milano; 3 Ospedale San Gerardo, Monza and Universita' degli Studi di Milano; and 4 Dipartimento di Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy

In healthy subjects, progressive beat-to-beat increases or decreases in systolic blood pressure (SBP) ramps are not always accompanied by baroreflex-driven lengthening or shortening in pulse interval (PI) ramps, respectively. This phenomenon has been quantified by a new index, the baroreflex effectiveness index (BEI), defined as the ratio between the number of SBP ramps followed by the respective reflex PI ramps and the total number of SBP ramps observed in a given time window. Specificity of BEI was shown in eight cats by a -89% reduction of BEI after sinoaortic denervation. In 14 healthy humans, the 24-h average BEI value was 0.21, with a marked day-night modulation (approx 0.25 day, approx 0.15 night) in counterphase with modulation of baroreflex sensitivity (BRS). Our analysis indicates that 1) in normal subjects, arterial baroreflex can induce beat-by-beat PI changes in response to only 21% of all SBP ramps, possibly because of central inhibitory influences or of interferences at sinus node level by nonbaroreflex mechanisms and 2) BEI provides information on the baroreflex function that is complementary to BRS.

baroreceptor; blood pressure variability


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